ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS

Buckminster Fuller & Olson Kundig
CONCEPTS

Buckminster Fuller;
[1] There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly
[2] Love is a metaphysical gravity
[3] Doing more and more with less and less until you can do everything with nothing
[4] Simplicity is the true measure of complexity
[5] Reorganising the environment for prosperity
[6] Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us

Olson Kundig;
[1] Architecture is the intersection between the poetic and the rational
[2] Contradictory objectives - open to environment yet closed for privacy
[3] A space is not constrained by area inside a building, a space is shaped by it
[4] Architecture is a movement and it transforms its surroundings
[5] Homes are primitive places
[6] Architecture must be as intimate as a family member